Sustainability Manager: Part-Time, Contract

We’re looking for a passionate and driven Sustainability Manager. This individual contributor role will fill in for the Director of Sustainability while they are on parental leave. The coverage timeframe is March through July 2025 with an average of 30 hours per week. There is a high possibility of continuing this important work with reduced hours beyond this critical coverage period.
The Sustainability Manager will lead vital programs and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure Grove's commitments to plastic neutrality, best-in-class sustainability reporting, and corporate responsibility are upheld and strengthened, maintaining and advancing our position as an industry leader in sustainability.

WHAT YOU'LL GET TO DO

• Plastic Reporting & Leadership
Grove is a leader in moving the CPG industry away from single-use plastic. Our product assortment is thousands of products, and growing! We report on plastic and other sustainability metrics for each product we sell. You will help us do the following:
• Maintain accurate sustainability metrics, such as our plastic footprint, plastic intensity, and more, to uphold Grove’s commitment to transparency and progress
• Deliver quarterly updates to key stakeholders on key metrics and progress toward plastic reduction goals
• Support customer-facing initiatives such as Beyond Plastic badging and manage the data feeding into Grove’s industry-first Impact Tracker (grove.co/impact)


• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
Although this is an individual contributor role, you will play a key role in influencing cross-function teams.
• Partner with marketing, creative, product innovation, and merchandising teams to integrate sustainability into company-wide initiatives
• Ensure that Grove’s sustainability values and initiatives are represented across all customer touch points


• Supplier Engagement & Carbon Reduction:
Grove is committed to more than just tackling plastic; we take our role as a responsible climate steward seriously.
• Collaborate with internal teams and Grove suppliers to develop a plan to meet Grove’s Science Based Targets.
• Lead work in reporting to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), ensuring timely, accurate, and comprehensive disclosures that align with Grove’s sustainability commitments and industry best practices.

ABOUT YOU

• Experience: 3+ years in sustainability, corporate responsibility, ESG, or a related field. Experience in consumer goods or e-commerce is a plus.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Strong knowledge of plastic and packaging sustainability is essential to support Grove's best-in-class plastic reporting, ensuring accurate and impactful measurement and communication of progress.
• Technical Skills: Strong proficiency in data and sustainability metrics. Familiarity with sustainability certifications, standards, and reporting frameworks.
• Analytical Skills: High attention to detail with experience managing complex datasets and reporting processes.
• Project Management: Ability to manage multiple projects, set priorities, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate any sustainability data or metrics into compelling customer-facing narratives.
• Collaboration: Proven success working cross-functionally to influence and align stakeholders around shared sustainability goals.

Launched in 2016 as a Certified B Corp, Grove Collaborative Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GROV) is transforming consumer products into a positive force for human and environmental good. Driven by the belief that sustainability is the only future, Grove creates and curates more than 240 high-performing eco-friendly brands of household cleaning, personal care, health and wellness, laundry, clean beauty, baby, and pet care products serving millions of households across the U.S. each year. By serving as the trusted destination for conscientious consumers who want to make the right choices for their families and the planet and providing access to knowledgeable Grove Guides, Grove makes it easy for everyone to build sustainable routines and Be a Force of Nature. Every product Grove offers — from its flagship brand of sustainably powerful home care essentials, Grove Co.™, to its exceptional third-party brands — has been thoroughly vetted against the Grove Feel Good Standard, which guarantees strict ingredients criteria, 100% plastic neutral orders, carbon neutral shipments, and high quality performance in addition to being certified cruelty-free and ethically produced. Grove is a public benefit corporation on a mission to move Beyond Plastic® and is available at select retailers nationwide, making sustainable home